NU-Creighton baseball draws a crowd

You have to like how Nebraska and Creighton fans turn out to see their baseball teams play each other. According to news reports, last night's game at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha drew 21,158 fans. That's the largest crowd in the history of this match up and one of the largest crowds in all of college baseball during recent years. It almost doubled the crowd size of 12,276 which showed up on April 4 for a previous meeting this year.

Omaha is a good college baseball town as evidenced by the success of the College World Series each year. Creighton and Nebraska both have a strong base of loyal baseball fans. Put those three factors together and you get large crowds.

It makes you wonder if Nebraska could play other rivalry games in Omaha with equal or similar success. Baseball and Basketball match ups with Iowa, for example, would seem like a natural for an Omaha location. Unfortunately according to the rumors out in cyberspace message boards, it appears that Iowa wants nothing to do with playing Nebraska in Baseball, Basketball or Football. Too bad. The Nebraska and Iowa fans are missing out on a natural rivalry.